It Ain't Hemingway

on february 28th, school of seven bells will release their 3rd album titled ghostory via vagrant/ghostly international. below check out the first offering titled “the night.”

meet you can’t win, charlie brown, a six piece from portugal. they released their full length debut in may called chromatic>. the band recently hit my radar after i noticed they were listed as one of the bands performing this year at sxsw and i was attracted by their name. after watching their video for “over the sun, under the water” (check it below) i dashed out (or actually, over) and bought their album. there’s an urgency of harmonics, melody and wonderful sense of electro-folk rock arrangement to their songs that remind me of local natives, dry the river, even frightened rabbit. stream their album below.

thanks to npr, you can watch tUnE-yArDs tiny desk concert HERE.

set list:

“you yes you”
“doorstep”
“my country”

ok, so i am ashamed to admit that the black belles just popped up on my radar and all could think was “whoa, whoa, whoa.” it’s the best garage-goth music my ears have ever heard since siouxsie and the banshees. signed to jack white’s third man records these girls know how to do the damn thing. below watch them in all their dark, smoky, witchy doom below.

“what can i do”

also stream their self-titled full-length HERE.